General Links

Daisy

• Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base http://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/
• Daisy ARIA roles https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/html/dpub-aria/
• Daisy Accessibility schema https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/metadata/schema.org/index.html
• Emphasis guidelines https://www.accessiblepublishing.ca/emphasis-options/
• More webinars than you can shake a stick at https://daisy.org/webinar-series/

Accessibility

• EPUB Accessibility 1.1 https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/
• AccessiblePublishing.ca https://www.accessiblepublishing.ca/
• Learn Accessible Publishing https://apln.ca/
• Benetech Publishers https://bornaccessible.benetech.org/certified-publishers/
• BC Libraries Wiki (lots on alt text) https://wiki.libraries.coop/doku.php?id=public:nnels:etext:start
• Inclusive Publishing in Practicehttps://www.inclusivepublishinginpractice.org/#/desktop/workspaces/open/doc/resources/home

Workflows

• Best practices 1 https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2020/7/22/best-practices-for-accessible-workflows-an-experimental-project
• Best practices 2 https://www.accessiblepublishing.ca/accessible-publishing-best-practices/
• Fondazione https://www.fondazionelia.org/en/interview/how-to-design-workflows-for-accessibility-interview-with-gruppo-mondadori/
• testing methodology https://inclusivepublishing.org/toolbox/reading-system-tests/

Tools

• Ace by Daisy https://daisy.github.io/ace/getting-started/ace-app/
  • Ace codebase https://github.com/daisy/ace
• EpubChecker https://github.com/paginagmbh/EPUB-Checker
• SMART http://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/epub/validation/smart.html
• eCanCrusher http://www.docdataflow.com/ecancrusher
• epub Zip-Unzip https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55681
• BBEdit free version https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit
• Thorium desktop https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/
• Vanilla Web ereader https://demo.colibrio.com/
• text-to-speech https://ttsreader.com/
• Standard ebooks toolset https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

Color checkers:

• https://contrastchecker.com/ Allows uploads!
• https://accessibleweb.com/color-contrast-checker/
• https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
• https://accessible-colors.com/ Suggests alternative colours!

language lookup

https://apln.ca/introduction-to-iso-639-language-codes/

• https://r12a.github.io/app-subtags/
• https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/639/data/all
• https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
• https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-5/id.php

conversion tools

https://daisy.github.io/pipeline/Get-Help/User-Guide/ — app(DAISY Pipeline 2):includes braille and DAISY

code options

-https://github.com/aerkalov/ebooklib

Vendor specifications

• Kindle Publishing Guide https://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines.pdf
• Kobo Specs https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec
• Apple Specs https://help.apple.com/itc/booksassetguide/en.lproj/static.html

ONIX Codelist

• Codelist 196 https://onix-codelists.io/codelist/196

MathML

• Kindle https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GZ8BAXASXKB5JVML#mathml_support

More?

Resource sites

• Epub Secrets https://epubsecrets.com/
  • Epub Secrets InDesign https://epubsecrets.com/ebooks-from-indesign-twenty-things-to-consider.php
• Booknet Tech Forum https://www.booknetcanada.ca/tech-forum
  • Born accessible https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/6/20/producing-born-accessible-books
  • epub history https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/2/8/epub-history-101-evolution-and-revolution
• APLN Community https://apln.ca/community-hub/
• Mobile Read:epub https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=179
• Accessible EPUB 3 (Matt Garish/O'Reilly) http://mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/Accessible_EPUB_3_sized.pdf
• Accessibility Toolkit – 2nd Edition https://opentextbc.ca/accessibilitytoolkit/
• Digital Publishing Hub (OLD) https://www.publisha.org/sections/ePub/
• Blitz CSS https://github.com/FriendsOfEpub/Blitz
  • Blitz misc.
• E-reader tests https://epubtest.org/ https://www.learningapps.co.uk/moodle/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=3023

Misc Systems

• Pressbooks https://docs.pressbooks.org/
• Colibrio https://www.colibrio.com/
• Greenlight https://www.circularsoftware.com/apps/greenlight.html
• TypeFi (with resources) https://www.typefi.com/automated-publishing-solutions/accessible-publishing/
• Textbox (alt tags people) https://www.textboxdigital.com/accessibility

CSS

• Blitz https://friendsofepub.github.io/eBookDesignChecklist/
• Blitz github https://github.com/FriendsOfEpub/Blitz
• OpenType tool http://utility-opentype.kennethormandy.com/

ebooks

• eBooks for Everyone (Canadian)https://alllitup.ca/eBooks-for-Everyone
• Standard eBooks https://standardebooks.org/
• https://www.bookshare.org/cms/partners/publishers

Conversion Houses

• CodeMantra (through eBound) https://codemantra.com/
• Canadian Electronic Library https://publisher.canadianelectroniclibrary.ca/conversion-services

Readers

• https://code.google.com/archive/p/olearia/
• https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dolphin-easyreader/id1161662515

Epub3 Standards

manifest options:

• https://www.w3.org/publishing/epub32/epub-packages.html

Onix Code list

• https://onix-codelists.io/codelist/196
• https://ns.editeur.org/onix/en/196

Marc relator Codes

• https://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html

Other sites/publishers

• https://www.press.umich.edu/about#accessibility
• https://www.koganpage.com/page/our-values

Articles

• https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/87947-how-publishers-can-get-alt-text-right.html

-https://epubsecrets.com/easy-css-wins.php Great CSS hints for advanced css

Original site with old code

https://b-t-k.github.io/ebook/